Hello -- Routing issues

[Ramanan Selvaratnam]

Hello all,

I am experiencing problems while trying to route a FreeBSD 4.4  system 
[1] to the internet via an ADSL modem [2].


  [FreeBSD install] <---ether--> [ADSL modem] <--PPP --> {Where I want 
to get to from the other end}



[1] --
Output of 'uname -a' is as follows....

'FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE #0: Fri Sep 21 01:20:00 GMT 2001
root at bob.freebsd-services.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC   i386'

The network interface has been found and configured after some problems 
with an embedded Gigabit ethernet interface .....the solution being 
addition of a PCI based network card even though the manual page (man 
em) claims support for Gigabit in version 4.4
Apart from this I have  tried to configure the routing when very sleepy 
last night.....
I am familiar with Linux based routing tables but the current state of 
my BSD installs routing table (output of 'netstat -nr') is beyond me.
(I have issued 'routed' on top of unsuccessful attempts at using the 
'route' command.....
what is the equivalent of 'route add default gateway x.x.x.x' in Linux?)

Help!

Where should I start to troubleshoot?

[2] --
Dunno whether this is relevant but....
 my new ADSL modem ('ADSL ROUTER' is printed in big letters on it!)   
has an internal IP of 10.0.0.2 by default and with the DHCP setting 
given to my Linux box (by NAT I guess) I was able to connect to the 
internet by using the Linux routing command.
Interestingly there is an option for 'RIP configuration' where the 
option RIP among others seems to be disabled by default. ...again not 
too usre whether this is an issue at this moment.

Enough details?

Best wishes,

Ramanan